Posts by mdava 111 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Feb 2011
" I think I'm long overdue for an audit of which sites I have accounts with, but rarely or never use any more... and time to start closing them.
Maybe I might start with Touchnote... but the burglars are over the hills now with their loot, so what would be the point?"
There isn't any point re the data, but perhaps there is in the sense of "I won't do business with people who don't care about my data."
The thing is, compatibility is the issue.
I, and many others, would immediately adopt LO as our sole office suite except for the fact that 99% of businesses use MS and compatibility is not perfect. I get that this is MS's fault (intention), but if it means that documents can't be shared and worked on without issues arising, then MS defends its position.
IMHO MS's office stranglehold is a far greater strength than the OS.
"I find that I do not miss 3D desktop effects one little bit; most of what I do involves what is in each window, be it Firefox, a terminal or whatever and I use the window manager to, well, manage these windows and manage the virtual desktops. Gnome Metacity Flashback does this perfectly. It works, works well and does so consuming minimal resources."
This is what I find as well (Lubuntu user) and have struggled to find:
(a) reviews that compare / describe useful functions of other DEs; or
(b) any description of why 3D / compositing / transparency / whatever is actually useful.
This is a genuine question - any answers to (b) above gratefully received.
why I don't own any apple products.
My last experience at an Apple store (to try to arrange to fix, then replace, my son's ipod) ended with the worker ant I was speaking to saying that he would "Make an appointment for you to see someone to buy this."
It's an mp3 player. Give me the f*cking box and point me at the till. Uppity tw*ts.
A plea for help - tangentially related to the article and after extensive googling:
Does anyone know how to change the action bar, specifically the action bar as shown when viewing an email that makes "reply all" rather than reply (a terrible idea) the main/obvious action?
"Well, if having "no apps" makes it easier to use, why not just buy a feature phone then?"
A fair point, but when the OP says no apps he means (and you know that he means) "only the basic apps".
I use only a fairly limited set of apps but I am both happy with them and wouldn't give them up: Email, Browser, Maps, eBay, Calendar, What'sApp, Camera/Editor and MP3 player is probably 95% of what I use my smartphone for, the other 5% being made up of other apps, calls and texts.
Well it's good to hear, but I'm not sure that it qualifies as "major".
My personal (least) favourite example is the £469m down the tubes with no usable output for the fire service.
Drifting gently off topic here, but does anyone know why the OverDrive system (used by my local UK libraries for ebook loans) cannot be used on Kindles anywhere other than the USA?
http://help.overdrive.com/customer/portal/articles/1481616
I love my Kindle, but it would be even better if I could use it to borrow from the library as well.
You are confusing the roles of the auditor and the financial due diligence team.
The auditor reports on whether the accounts show a "true and fair" view of what happened. They do not report on:
- whether what happened is likely to continue into the future; and
- whether what happened was actually a good business proposition (you can make the dumbest deals in the history of the world and still have a "clean" audit report).
Specifically: the allegation that Autonomy inflated its sales by reporting hardware transactions. Provided that the transactions occurred, even if at nil margin, they are arguably sales of the business and could be reported as such.
The firm doing the due diligence, however, should have picked this up and highlighted it to HP. Whether they did, and whether the right person in HP was reviewing their reports, will eventually be unearthed in the courts
What I'd really like to see (purely from my selfish individual viewpoint, I'm not making business decisions about cloud strategy) is an analysis of the financial stability/viability of cloud storage providers.
Given they are (almost) all pursuing the freemium approach, how confident can I be that my 5Gb of files at cheekycloudstartup.com won't be switched off by the administrators tomorrow or that Google won't suddenly decide that drive is non-core (I feel that this one is fairly low-risk :~) and will be deprecated next week?
Reply-all is fine, but it is proved time and time again that it's used inappropriately.
I think all email clients should require that when you click "reply-all" you have to individually say "yes" to each of the email addresses that you are responding to.
I can't think of a valid reason to reply-all to more than 20 people, so doesn't seem unworkable.
I have never understood this either.
Even if you assume that each complainant represents a thousand others who shared their view but were too lazy to do anything about it, that is still only three-thousandths of a percent of the population.
Also, I thought the ad was not bad.
This site works for me - whether on a PC or a smartphone - no pointless graphics, just information. I believe that it scrapes all the info from the National Rail website, so is just as up-to-date.
You can bookmark your favourite stations, departure boards or the "get me home" function as (eg) http://traintimes.org.uk/nearest/london
I agree 100%. It is wholly irrational for anyone, under any circumstance, to be able to charge your phone bill for tens or hundreds of pounds. There should be a low cap for one-off charges (a fiver?) and an even lower cap for these scams where your phone gets charged repeatedly for rubbish like ring-tones, wallpaper or horoscopes*.
* For the avoidance of doubt, I haven't been robbed for these things, but my son was unfortunately sufficiently naive to be caught out. Until, having put a tenner on his PAYG account I told him to check it *15*minutes*later* and found that three (!) £2.50 charges had been taken immediately. I phoned the network and told them they could refund the money or give me a PAC code.
I know what you mean and share your cynicism, but the same suggestions-of-friends-they-couldn't-possibly-know-about happens on (inter alia) Facebook as well and you have to assume that it is as a result of the *other* person letting FB have access to their email contact list. Don't you?
My company mobile/blackberry is on Orange and the network is deeply useless - in terms of both coverage and the late voicemail notifications you referred to.
I have used all of the other networks at one time or another and, while they may not be excellent, they are all less sh*t than Orange.
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